Iraqi artist Mohammed Sami, who grew up beneath Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, could have a solo exhibition at Blenheim Palace, an 18th-century mansion in Oxfordshire, this summer season (9 July to twenty October) .
“For this exhibition, Sammy will develop a totally new physique of labor, based mostly on recurring themes and pictures in his observe, and drawing inspiration from the historical past and assortment of Blenheim Palace,” a mission assertion mentioned .
in line with protectorSami skilled “the Iran-Iraq battle, two Gulf wars, the US-led invasion and sectarian violence”; in 2007, he moved to Sweden as a refugee and later studied at Goldsmiths, College of London. “What I categorical in my art work are recollections hidden in mind cells ready to be triggered,” he mentioned. In 2023, he’ll maintain a solo exhibition on the Camden Arts Heart in London.
The Sami exhibition is the ninth modern artwork exhibition held on the palace. Earlier exhibitions have been devoted to Yves Klein, Maurizio Cattelan, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jenny Holzer, Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, Lawrence Weiner and Ti No Sehgal. All exhibitions are organized by the Blenheim Arts Basis.
In the course of the 2019 Cattelan exhibition, thieves stole the artist’s 18-karat gold rest room (USA, 2016). 4 males have been charged with housebreaking final November: James Sheen, 39, and Michael Jones, 38, have been charged with housebreaking, whereas Fred Doe, 35, Fred Doe) and Bora Guccuk, 39, have been charged with conspiring to switch felony property. They appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court docket on November 28, have been granted unconditional bail, and are on account of seem at Oxford Crown Court docket on January 4 (the end result of the case stays unclear).
